Crossword clues for vantage
vantage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vantage \Van"tage\, v. t.
To profit; to aid. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Vantage \Van"tage\ (v[.a]n"t[asl]j; 48), n. [Aphetic form of OE. avantage, fr. F. avantage. See Advantage.]
-
superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. [R.]
O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!
--Shak. -
(Lawn Tennis) The first point after deuce.
Note: When the server wins this point, it is called vantage in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is called vantage out.
To have at vantage, to have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than. ``He had them at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march.''
--Bacon.Vantage ground, superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. ``The vantage ground of truth.
--Bacon.It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him.
--I. Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "advantage, profit," from Anglo-French vantage, from Old French avantage "advantage, profit, superiority" (see advantage). Vantage point "favorable position" attested from 1865; a similar notion was in earlier vantage ground (1610s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An advantage. 2 A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point. 3 A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. 4 (context dated tennis English) (alternative form of advantage nodot=yes English) (score after deuce) vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To profit; to aid.
WordNet
n. place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)
the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me" [syn: advantage] [ant: disadvantage]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 39
Land area (2000): 0.318660 sq. miles (0.825326 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.318660 sq. miles (0.825326 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74200
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.946710 N, 119.991758 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Vantage
Wikipedia
Vantage may refer to:
- Vantage, Washington, a census-designated place in Kittitas County, Washington
- Aston Martin Vantage (2005), an automobile manufactured by Aston Martin
- Vantage (cigarette), a cigarette brand manufactured by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
- Vantage Guitars, a guitar brand manufactured by Matsumoku
- Vantage Championship, a 1986 golf tournament
- Vantage Club, a frequent flyer program for Monarch Airlines
- Vantage Magazine, a publication at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California
- Vantage, a flat bed business class airline seat developed by James Thompson
- Vantage Airport Group, an airport management company
- VisionAire Vantage, a prototype single-engine jet aircraft built by Scaled Composites
Vantage is a brand of American cigarettes manufactured by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. It received its biggest advertising push in the 1970s and '80s but is now categorized as a 'non-support' brand; though R.J. Reynolds will not provide marketing support for Vantage, the company will maintain the brand's distribution where there is consumer demand.
Vantage is notable for its innovative filter design. Rather than featuring a solid filter like most cigarette brands, Vantage's filter features a conical hole in its center. While seemingly as mysterious as Parliament's recessed filter, Vantage advertising from 1977 states that the reasoning behind the design is to give "smokers the flavor of a full-flavor cigarette without anywhere near the 'tar' or nicotine".
Vantage's current-day profile is rather low, but the brand pops up every so often. In the film " Junebug", it is the brand smoked by Peg Johnsten, the mother-in-law of Amy Adams' character, Ashley. It is featured as the heroine's cigarette of choice in Lorrie Moore's short story "Willing" in her collection Birds of America and is seen being stubbed out by a minor character in Donna Tartt's bestselling The Secret History. Similarly, the final punch line of the film Reversal of Fortune comes as Jeremy Irons's Klaus von Bulow purchases "two packs Vantage" at a drug store. Bette Davis, who was well known for her smoking habit, changed her preferred cigarette from Lucky Strike to Vantage in the later years of her life. In chapter 103 of Forever by Pete Hamill, Cormac O'Connor purchases a pack of Vantage, ending nine days of not smoking.
According to the 1984 biography " Wired" by Bob Woodward, John Belushi was a smoker of Vantage cigarettes.
Usage examples of "vantage".
What she wanted to see, from her vantage point seven stories high, was the ambulance dock at the Birth Center, and the route it would take to the hospital.
Tongue, looking for a way around the anticline, and then gone off wandering up cliffs and in and out of side canyons, searching for the best vantage point to show it to us from.
The long, astoundingly hard walk to reach this vantage point had taken more than an hour.
Probably some farther distance away from the moisture farm so its autonomic spy circuits could kick in and it could find a surreptitious vantage point by which it could observe and record whatever happened.
It was from that vantage that I saw Eliza Arnold near, and set her hands upon the bunched shoulders of Mammy Venus.
The wizard looked at him numbly and Parrail shook him bodily before urging him into the narrow shadow cast by the crude walkway that offered their few token guards a vantage point.
Arlie had run off somewhere, leaving me in charge, and from my vantage behind the counter, located in an ante-room whose walls were covered by a holographic photomural of a blue sky day in the now-defunct Alaskan wilderness, and furnished with metal tables and chairs, all empty at that juncture, I could see colored lights playing back and forth within the bar, and hear the insistent rhythms of a pulse group.
Arlie had run off somewhere, leaving me in charge, and from my vantage behind the counter, located in an anteroom whose walls were covered by a holographic photomural of a blue-sky day in the now-defunct Alaskan wilderness, and furnished with metal tables and chairs, all empty at that juncture, I could see colored lights playing back and forth within the bar, and hear the insistent rhythms of a pulse group.
The art of bill-sticking had lost nothing in the interval, and from countless tall hoardings, from house ends, from palings, and a hundred such points of vantage came the polychromatic appeals of the great Boomfood election.
From a secure vantage in a seacoast town Lance challenged a trial by his peers, and, as an already prejudged man escaping from his executioners, obtained a change of venue.
Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle.
But one summer day he steered it off the gorge road on a return trip from a wood run to Conejos Junction, was somehow thrown clear onto a ledge, and from that spectacular vantage point he watched his rattletrap do a swan dive into the Rio Grande eight hundred feet below.
Only from this unclouded vantage, we maintained, could humanity finally rise out of its repetitious history of turds and turmoil and realize that mighty goal of One World.
Their narrow and drafty vantage point was not the highest or most easily accessible, but von Salm and various military advisors had two weeks ago sealed off and taken possession of the platform that commanded the best view.
From the vantage point of the wharf, he watched for the return of the sealer Mary Ann, but it was dusk before a helpful passerby pointed the vessel out to him.